The Impact of Dialogic Teaching on English Language Learners’ Speaking and Thinking Skills

Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Volume 8. Number 4. December 2017 
The impact of Dialogic Teaching on English Language Elhassan &
Adam
Arab World English Journal
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ISSN: 2229-9327
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classmates. Students are cooperating with each other in a shared reality and with the help of each 
other create something more than their own personal action.
 Using the technique of dialogue in teaching provides the learners with opportunity to speak 
to each other
More than half of the respondents (56.7%) strongly agreed that using the technique of dialogue 
in teaching provides the learners with opportunity to speak to each other
, 
30% of them agreed, 
8.1% of them were neutral, 3.3% of them disagreed and only one respondent strongly disagreed. 
This high percentage of agreement to the statement (86.7%) emphasizes the importance of 
dialogue in developing learners' thinking and speaking skills based on the fact that the concept of 
dialogue, itself, establishes the existence of the other person who cannot be excluded because 
meanings are created in processes of reflection between people.
Using the technique of dialogue in teaching provides the learners with opportunity to listen 
to each
other
Results reveals that 38.3% of the respondents agreed that using the technique of dialogue in 
teaching provides the learners with
 
opportunity to listen to each other, 30% of them strongly 
agreed, 25% of them were neutral, 5% of them disagreed and only one respondent strongly 
disagreed. As shown in results, 68.3% of respondents agreed with this assumption. This indicates 
that dialogue is an effective technique in promoting learners' speaking skills and thinking if we 
consider that in any dialogue the person we are speaking to, the "addressee", is always already 
there at the beginning of the utterance just as we are there already on the inside when the addressees 
frame their reply to us.